Findingand Reminding File Organization from the Desktop Deborah Barreauand BonnieA. Nardi This paper summarizes and synthesizes two independent studies of the ways users organize and flnd files on their computers. Thefirst study (Barreau 1995) investigated inJbrmation organization practices among users of DOS, W~ndows and 0S/2. The second study (Nardi, Anderson and Erickson 1995), examined the finding and filing practices of Macintosh users. There were more similarities in the two studies than differences. UJersin both studies (1) pre~rred location-basedfinding because of its crucial reminding function; (2) avoided elaboratefiling schemes; (3) archived relatively little ins~rmation; and (4) worked with three ~ypesof ins~rmarion: ephemeral, working and archived. A main di~rence between the study populations was that the Macintosh users used subdirectories to organize infbrmation and the DOS users did not. ysis of the similarities and differences in filing practices across the two user populations. But why should we be interested in electronic filing and finding practices? The first reason is that filing and finding are such basic aspects of working with computers that while we scarcely notice their existence - hence the lack of research - every computer user spends time and effort in filing and finding every time the computer
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Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop
Barreau, Deborah; Nardi, Bonnie A.
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, Volume 27 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 1995
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